In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

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.

Mantras are the past & the future.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.