We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! 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.

If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary.

We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.

There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white, for chaosdemands color.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.