For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

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.

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.

love is but an echo in her head

My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.