Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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.

Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.