The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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.

Once you backslide, strife will enter your life

We can be convicted of sin—we can pray and confess our sin—we can repent—but the real test is our willingness to obey.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.