If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

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.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.