People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

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.

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways.

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Neutrality is not politics.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)