Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Dream and Done

Life gives us experiences, we are learners.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.