When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

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.

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.