Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

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.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.