The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

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.

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

They said the doctors could tell from the scars.""Stop.""Scars can tell you how old the wound is.""Stop.""When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet.""Sarah.

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

I have never given up on men easily.

The only thing that counts is a satisfied customer.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.