A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like 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.

Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.