When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do.

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.