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.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!