One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

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.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Despair and die. The ghosts