I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

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 can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.

The risk I took was calculated, but, man, am I bad at math!

Make mistakes faster.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.