Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

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're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

Acknowledging your blessings makes them proliferate.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.