Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

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.

For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.