The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

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.

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

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!

With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fightingagainst.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Every word, every character in a picture book must count.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.