The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Love, too, has to be learned.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

Believe that you have a destiny to be great.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.