The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

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.

Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.