And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

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.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.