What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

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.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed.

The strangest things in life, are often closer to reality, than reality would like to admit.

Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!