The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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.

Many men but one Master.

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.