Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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 foundation laid in us before was a foundation of thoughts, traditions, and religion of men

We had first met in a class on digital imaging

A broken vessel cannot hold anything within itself, therefore only something supernatural can hold itself within a broken vessel.

It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.