A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

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.

You can shine wherever you are.

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Digital Darinism is already changing the landscape of business.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.