As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

This is a huge thing if you are going to have a positive impact on your spouse. You have to not only realize this, but you have to practice this.

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Say you're doing a headstand. The moment you think to yourself, "Wow, I'm doing this pose!" is usually the moment you'll topple out of it.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.