Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit