You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

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.

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers