It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

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 know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

An old man loved is Winter with flowers.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

I do not always listen again but if something strikes me, I exploit it.