To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

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 we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Everybody loses the thing that made them.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.