A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Love is always more than friendship.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.

Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.