Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

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.

Don't envy the people that are more successful than you. Rather, use their success stories to strengthen your faith in the manifestation of your positive desires.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.