Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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.

The only way to find out how far you can trust a person is by wholeheartedly trusting him or her.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.