The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Don't you touch me again. I will knock you out, junior!

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.