But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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 course of true love never did run smooth.

Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.

I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.