We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Kindled the fire within you.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, 'You have to stop washing your hair so much!'

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.