We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

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.

It’s the unknown that draws people.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.