There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

He couldn’t grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.