As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

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.

Christmas teaches us to be loving, kind, giving, forgiving, and appreciating.

That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

Jerks aren't heartbreakers there just fools with good taste.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.