The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

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.

‪#‎TRUTH‬ ‪#‎BEREAL‬We must be ruthlessly honest with and about Self..Self Assessments are often inflated or deflated or just imaginary..

Unless you learn how to love yourself first, you will not be able to truly love anyone else

We had to google the lyrics to our own song

Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.