The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

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.

To fill our lives with joy, the morning sun touches our hearts with the warmth of her kindness and the light of her love. Let us be like the sun touch someone’s life with kindness every morning.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.