As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.

(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.