The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

My silence is my self-defence.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Love is the door to Heaven

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill

Each day a day goes by.

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.