The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

Set your face for religion being upright, the nature made by Allah in which He has created the human being.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

You must ask for what you really want.