There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

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.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process.

Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.

Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it's still kind of fresh.