Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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.

Don’t let your problems become your obsession.

A wise woman invests her time and doesn’t squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

Blues are the songs of despair.

Do one thing every day that scares you. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.