... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

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.

Don’t accept a life that has been molded for you by others because eventually you’ll succumb to its falseness.

Embrace your dreams ... If you wanna be a hero, you gotta have dreams.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued