I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

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.

Life is surprises, try not to expect everything.

I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.

I'm not a housewife in any way.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

A man without trust is a man without life.

More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire