You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

Though, ' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.