Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

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'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.