A good solid bit of work lasts.

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.

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.