Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

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.

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.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Remember, that username is a real person. Choose to spread the love online.

Literature is news which stays news.

One thing I have learnt in this life, is that you got to have Jesus.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.