Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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.

Even the broken will fight

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.