There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

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.

There is a glitch in the Matrix ("Real World")… Illusions is one of them.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.