Better a false belief than no belief at all.

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.

Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption

I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

I also want to make sure that when we debate these things [hackers attacks], that we actually have the facts that are very clear in front of us to have this debate.