When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

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.

Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!

The most important blessing to count is your heart beat.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.