Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.

Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.