I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

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.

Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.