Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

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.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

I fell, she laughed. I fell hard, she laughed harder. Seeing that I kept falling till I fell in love.

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!