Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.