Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

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.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

What you do daily determines what you become permanently

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.