If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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.

It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.