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.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

A human life is poetry written in our heart.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?