What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

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.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!