The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

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.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.