Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

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.

Praying is the power of being.

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

What can't be cured must be endured.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.