For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

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.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .