It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

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 create myself from nothing.

Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad'

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?