The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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.

A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.