In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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.

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.