It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

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.

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

Strong faith doesn’t give up

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.