You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.