There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

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.

To use your life to work means giving out your time to work to get compensated for it.

I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

Twilight''s got some avid - and rabid - fans.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.