Alas! never had I loved him so well!

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.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.