It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

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.

The rangers of the night stay strangers in the eye of time.

Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.