Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Lessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out.