You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

The day of individual happiness has passed

Each soul is potentially divine.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.