The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

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.

If you lose faith, then you begin to fear.

Simply put, That Which Is - what most of us call God - is not a physical person nor a this or that spirit etc. Is the Quintessence of All That Is.

In solitude when we are least alone.

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.