When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

On TV they keep their kids. Love them.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

What is so certain of victory as patience?

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.