I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

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.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Don't let where you are be an excuse not to grow.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.