What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

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.

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.