Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

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 live each day with fullness of thanks.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

Time is the only commodity that is irreplaceable: invest it, share it, spend it...but never waste it.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.