I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

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 recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.