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.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

You look at these kids...thousands and thousands of kids...and you stop and think, how can you not care?

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

It's all success if it's what you need.