If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

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.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

No coach is more important than the Team

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.