Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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.

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

I am an atheist thank God!

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

We're going to make America rich again. We're going to make our country great again. And we need the rich in order to make the great.

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.