It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.

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.

Without charity, there is no salvation.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.