Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

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.

What do you want?""You." His voice was soft, low. His eyes were intense and watchful.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.