Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

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.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy