I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.