Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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.

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

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

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

His life had made a complete three sixty, in one year. He had a family that he adored, a wife that he would die for and a whole new outlook on life.

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.