White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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.

Fed by plants, fed up with the world

The morning slathers its whateveracross the thing.

Why would I want to fit in?

Be sure you are right then go ahead.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.