Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

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.

You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.

One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don't know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

I do think vajazzles need to stop. The whole thing of glitter-ising your cell phone and your purse and your body needs to stop.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.