The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.

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.

I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

Sometimes I want to impersonate a fountain, but specific circumstances don't allow me to do it.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.