In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

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.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

I was 22 years old when I asked Christ to come into my heart. You cannot be born a Christian you can only be converted. And that is by putting your faith and trust in Christ.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

I am competing with what I am capable of.