Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.