The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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.

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.

I had a Shiatsu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

The name Reflect It Back comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

Sometimes you have to crouch to conquer

It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.