I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

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.

It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, " she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.