To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall

It feels good to have your work respected again.

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.