Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

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.

Think about the eternal consequence of your actions

I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

Lords of space and Lords of time, Lords of blessing, Lords of grace, Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it he who does one should never remember it.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.