Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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.

Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?