To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

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.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know.