And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

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.

It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it is also true that no one ever said you had to go through it alone.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.