It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

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 ages live in history through their anachronisms.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

Mo Nighean donn, " he whispered, " mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart."Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.

A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.