Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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.

Invest in your purpose and land of promise

Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life.

The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.

Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.

Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

I find love from time to time.

I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...