Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

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.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.

He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.

Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.