... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

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.

Kindness is soft and humble like water, but it is the ultimate power of life.

Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little.

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?

I used to be a hairdresser.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.