autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

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 past is always with us. It echoes through every living moment, giving it depth and meaning beyond itself. Sometimes the past is so powerful, those echoes threaten to overwhelm the present.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I am a very nonspiritual person.

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.