You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.