I am no bird and no net ensnares 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.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff.

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.