Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

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.

A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.