Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

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.

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.