We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.