Animals are such agreeable friends.

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.

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.