Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.

I'm a witch and witches burn.

The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.