If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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.

But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably, ” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.

Failing is easy, but climbing up the mountain requires strategy, commitment, endurance, and the iron will to keep trying till you reach the summit.

Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win-Ford 'Blame It on the Pain

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.