You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

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.

Wit is educated insolence.

Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

To accomplish your goals and purposes in life you must be constantly refreshed by Him.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

There’s an opportunity cost to everything.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.