The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

-'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.