The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

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.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.

It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.