Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.