Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

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.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.