Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

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.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

We wonder with our thoughts to the heavens.

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

London is a very energising place to be.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

We are such stuff that dreams are made of.