A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Love is a mental madness.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

I do wear makeup when I work out. I am one of those people. It sounds stupid, but I can't really get motivated if I don't have a mirror and I'm not staring at myself because I need to look at myself.