To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

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.

If whatever belief you are holding on to isn't driving you forward in life, then it's time to let it go and let the opposite take charge.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.