I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

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.

You can never know a lot but you can always do a lot.

If something's permanent, it's definitely not love.

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness.

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.