Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

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.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Talon glanced wistfully at his drink as he debated what should take priority. 'Coffee... Daimons... Coffee... Daimons...