The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

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.

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?

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good, ’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.

Don't sabotage your energy, focus on expanding your energy bubble.

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.