To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

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.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

Fate was funny that way

Opportunities are not to be availed but to be made.

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you.

The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.