The shadows are as important as the light.

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.

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” you need to use your strong point and strengthen your weak point

The world is what you make of it

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

We can't afford any president to fail.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

We have a fair amount of racism.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.