Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

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 destiny of every country is in the hands of the people who know God.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

I don't live the single life and never really did.