One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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.

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

The absence of war is not peace.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.