It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

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.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

The dead walk among us.