The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

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.

I don't think we can solve the outside problemsuntil we solve the ones within.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.