Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

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 covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

Just in the real world I think women are the ones that have all the power anyway.