Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

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.

My mother was the greatest philosopher. I am nothing but a reflection of her imagination.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.