In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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 envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.