Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

I need to work to feel well.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.