Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

I invite you all to participate in Make in India.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.