As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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.

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat?

Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.

I was gung-ho, no question about that.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .