I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

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.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.