Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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.

Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight, you have it or you don't

Technology is society made durable.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.