Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself

Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.