Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

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.

We need more people in this world, energised by chasing a quest or a goal and that is what will energise the world.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

Tessa knows Will,” protested Charlotte. “She trusts Will.” “Iwouldn’t go that far,” muttered Tessa.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.