Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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.

You have to do the planed work the day

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

I will not be misquoted!

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.