For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

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.

To enhance your experience and consciousness, your mind is always trying to understand everything that is going on around you.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.