Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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.

Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme.

I change by not changing at all.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.