One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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 wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

This heart is a hurricane, turbulent with ache screaming winds of grief waiting to make the skyfall, to pluck the cloudsfrom their beds with itswhipping winds

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.