The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

We cannot achieve or goal when we are afraid, not confident, passive and indecisive

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.