A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

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.

What you mean to me is something out of the ordinary, cause even a whole of a dictionary won't be able to describe it!

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

God’s love is God’s attention.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

He needs to have a strong heart, because critics don't have a heart.