We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.