The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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.

Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

I'm jealous of my parents. I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.