The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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 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.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

The Way is not in the sky

You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Everything in life is relative.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

If you have no doubt, you are not sane.