Families are always rising and falling in America.

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.

The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.