Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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.

Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.