A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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

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.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

I Can’t Be With Her, But it Ain’t Stopping Me From Loving Her

I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate could be as important to the future as clean water.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.