There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

No matter what happens, even if the stars fall, I will live.

Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.