Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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.

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.