By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Understand the now. Don't even worry about five seconds later, worry about now.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.