Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

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.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God.