So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

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.

Your real beauty is hidden in your heart.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

YOU HAVE A VAAGGGIINNAAA!

For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

I became a Catholic against my will.