Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

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.

Loving spirits are with you every step of the way, cheering you on and offering help when they can. You are never alone.

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.