The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

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.

Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.