A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

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.

They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

We cannot show weakness in this world today

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.