There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

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.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.