“For while the tired waves vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.”

“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”

“All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.”

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”

“Back and back the planes had come with their hail of bullets, while sampans sank and went under. Back and back until there was but one empty sampan left drifting on the water. Then the planes had come no more— not for one empty sampan. It had drifted silently— empty.”

“I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.”

“The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.”

“When more than 90% of the gains have gone to the top 1%, that's where the money is. And we are going to follow the money. And if companies take tax breaks and then ship jobs overseas, we'll make them pay us back. And we'll put that money to work where it belongs … creating jobs here at home!”

“Situation very serious… Those ordered to rescue the Führer are keeping silent… Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere… Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.”

“Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.”