Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

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.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.

Do something new and expect new result.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.