Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

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.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

People say it's madness, Others call it danger, I call it Alternative Normality.

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’, my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’, my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.