I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.

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.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

I think that's the great thing about being with, having a dog, is it kind of forces you to be in the present because that's definitely where they're spending their time.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.