In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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 judge yourself by your past

You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.