Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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.

Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me.

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

If I had a girlfriend I would write her letters instead of using Twitter.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.