It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

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.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.