O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

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.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

Sometimes in life, we need to be pushed to conquer our fears, challenge our nightmares, realized our dreams and achieved our goals, in order to be the best we can be. - CG Murphy

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf.""

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.