To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

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.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

In your journey of life, stick to relevance, don’t stay stuck! Keep improving yourself until your opportunity comes.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.