As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

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.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

Mentorship is key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits.

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.