Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

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.

Why does it take a man's attention to make me see anything good about myself?

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy.

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.