Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

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.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

Listen to the voice of the earth.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.