I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.