A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

The hour of our release draws near.

Faith in God gives faith in self.

But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.