I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

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.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.