Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

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.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.