Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Rich or poor, the same breath of life.

Have you sipped your poems today?

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

There is never a need to justify anything to others, only yourself.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".