...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

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.

What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

I've seen a lot more go to zero than infinity.

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.