I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

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.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.