You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

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.

The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.