There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

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.

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.