Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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.

You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.

Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.