No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

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.

Love may be on the horizon, but beware something wicked this way comes.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.