Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

Life is neither a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.

Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

That's a maple leaf, Canadian, not just for being too European but too Canadian. Not so subtly putting [Ted] Cruz's face inside that maple leaf there.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

If there is a will, there is always a way my friend