The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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 sorry if I’m not flirting with you. I’m kind of spoken for.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

I have other fish to fry.

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People like change in general, but not in particular.