What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

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 you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude.

I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.

Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Be an example, be positive, be enthusiastic, be proactive--that is proactive leadership.

Youth is the last ride with fun, but the first one with responsability.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.