There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

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 celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.