My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

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 see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.