True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

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.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

Together let's defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.