Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

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 don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!

I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.