His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

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.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

I know that England changed me. I became a little bit colder, a little different.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.