You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

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.

There was still light in the world, and the choice was hers to be a part of it.

Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe.

Moms are life's number one cheerleaders without uniforms.

If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.