The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life

A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.

'Mallory, ' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

There is nothing god cannot do.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?