Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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.

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.

Our prayers must be in accordance with [God’s] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

Never force you way into a heart that refuses to make room for your presence. Respect your self-worth at all times.

A farce or comedy is best played

I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind