Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Kindness always leaves a timeless deposit on the heart.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong