Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

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.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.