'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

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.

The death of a dream is the day that you stop believing in the work it takes to get there.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.