There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

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.

Find mebeneath your tongue, but not with other lipsnor by another tongueFind melet your yearning run wild as thirst seeks wateras silence seeks the soundFind meand I will be on my way...

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

He hasn't shown me anything but how he carries himself as a professional man, husband, father and athlete. Tom Brady is a pro's pro. I love the man and everything he's accomplished.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.