The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

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 roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings

How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate, Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!