Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.' Is he?' All boys are.

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.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

In order to be a successful Photographer, you must possess both Vision and Focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?