There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

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.

A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born.

The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.