When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

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.

If you can't be the change, you can set an example for change. If you can't set an example for change, you can go and sleep! By all means, you can do something!

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

A kiss brings back the youth of a young child, as when a hug brings back the memories of a lover.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand?

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.