We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

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.

What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.