God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

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.

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God, " the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

You know it's real when reality becomes a dream, the dream becomes real, and real feels unreal

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.

I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

He who blushes is already guilty.

No one before you has gotten to me this way.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.