Character is a perfectly educated will.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

To live is to evolve our point of view about the world and what we have decided to do with it.

It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day

Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.

We are here today and gone tomorrow.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.