Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

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.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

They say the best things in life are free, and they are if you can afford them.

Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.