What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

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.

Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.