If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

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.

Wake up, sleeping beauty, " he whispered in her ear. "The sun is just about to crest the mountains.""Tell it to wait, " she mumbled.

The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.