No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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.

Let me put it this way. You, my beautiful girl, have the power to really hurt me, with how I feel about you. Far more than anyone else ever has or ever could. I don’t know if you realize that.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.