I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

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.

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns.

I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.