For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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.

To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.

How I wish the police service is instructed to arrest people who over-complain! Just arrest them, do no harm to them, but make them do the "work" they complain about with hard labour!

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

I love going out and doing new things.

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

...the still point in a turning world.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.