Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

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.

Jump every hurdle. If you feel like everything negative has happened to you, you were given these obstacles because the Universe knows that you are strong enough to handle it.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.