The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

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.

What I truly desire to do, I shall dare attempt.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

Happiness is a beautiful smile.

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.