If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.

Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

I live in jeans, mainly Wrangler and Nudie. I like them as dark blue as they'll go and tightly woven.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.