I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

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.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

I shine my light on every dark thought that arises and they turn into whispers with wings and fly away.

Hey, Macey, sorry to drop in but Cammie just had to be alone with me. You know how she gets.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.