Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.