Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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.

If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

The phoenix must burn to emerge

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.