No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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.

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.