What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

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.

Am I higher or lower than she? It was always the vital question for Anna: who was superior, and how she could position herself so that she would be perceived as superior?

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

your failure to acknowledge the existence of God makes you worst than the devil.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.