Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

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.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth

Life happens when you get lost in a dream.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.