Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

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.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers