Human experience is usually paradoxical.

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 me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

A best friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself