The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

You can't get different results by doing things the same way.

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.