'Tis what I love determines how I love.

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 love is immortal.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.

I like that Sleepy Brown guy who's down with Andre. He's so great.

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?