The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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 stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.