but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

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.

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate.

More than a plan the right companion is who makes your travel memorable.

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.