No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.