There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

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.

Death only comes when a being has served its purpose. From a narrow perspective, that purpose may not be clear, but in the grand scheme of things, it makes perfect sense.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.