To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

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.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

I'm excited about where I am right now.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?