A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive.

Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.

I am a little world made cunningly.

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.