Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.

The real test for your ethics, is with you deal with bad persons, ethics coms normally with deal with the honest type.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.