trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

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.

Spread your wings of love, and let your mind fly to a distant land where love is the air of life.

When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.