How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

I don't know. I was just calling it that in my head all along, and so I programmed that name into the processor. What do you think?""It's stupid, " Lourdvang rumbled.

As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?