Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

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.

Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality.

Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.

I definitely don't get recognized so I don't have to deal with that.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.