What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

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.

We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

My fans are called 'Mayniacs'. They enjoy screaming and chasing me and taking pictures.

I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.