All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

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.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.