Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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.

If we still advise we shall never do.

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.