I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

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.

Research suggests that sea level adapted humans that work at the very high altitude 13, 796 feet summit of Mauna Kea may eventually develop sleep apnea and fatigue from the low oxygen environment.

The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.