A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

I don't get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.

Michael Cole is a visionary!