Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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 love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.