What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

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.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.