I soon forgot storm in music.

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.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

I am forever on the way

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves