Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

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.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them