All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

I hated suits until I wore a Calvin Klein; they just fit me.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.