Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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.

It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.