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.

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.

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.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

To gain height, lose all your tall friends.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.