I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

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.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Your personal integrity, defined as being honest and having strong moral principles, communicates whether (or not) you can be trusted.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

We do not earn or deserve the love of God; we already have it.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.