God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.

O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

I don't have a favorite place to play.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.