To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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.

Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.