Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

O, I am slain!

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.