You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

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.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

I'm not a first-place person.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

Liberty trains for liberty.