Silence is a great peacemaker.

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.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.