There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

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.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.