Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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.

Aye, well, it’s like a battle. Ya lay yer plans, then when they go wrong, ya make things up as ya go.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.

Only you can change yourself, no one else can.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].