I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.