The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may, ' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

ObamaCare (modeled almost precisely on RomneyCare) is wrong; it was bad medicine; it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.

I never wanted to be an actor.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.