Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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.

This world's a bubble.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words