The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

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.

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.