We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

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.

These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.