If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

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.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Sharing our story is one way we create intimacy. And like a good novel, it’s more engaging – and lasting – when we allow it to gradually unfold.

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.