How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

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.

To function in the original intention is to adhere to spiritual principles

Live in harmony with nature.

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.

The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!