Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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.

That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)