Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

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.

You are so close I want to breath you in.

We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

Of course I like to look at pretty girls in the street. What hot-blooded boy doesn't.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

I had no problems staying motivated because things that were happening were things I looked forward to.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.