I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

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.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.