Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

Happiness is a choice. Don’t let the outside world choose it for you.

Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.