Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

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.

Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

When I was into The Beatles, I cut my hair into a Beatle haircut, which looked so ridiculously stupid with my little cat-eye glasses that I wore.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.