We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

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.

You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.

Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they're wrong - it is a sign of healing.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Work backward from your goal.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.