I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

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.

Learn to hear your inner voice, be led by your heart and never stop giving back – this way you shall always walk the right path and shall never be walking alone.

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe

It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.