If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

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.

A garden is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.

Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.