I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

We must seek the inner self, the power within.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.