Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

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.

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Some lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

other kids pack lunch

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".