How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.

If we don't want to eat vegetables, we don't eat 'em. If the left want to eat vegetables, they want everybody else to do what they do and not do what they don't do.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.