In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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.

He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable.