Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

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.

I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

I'm comfortable with morally gray.

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.

Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.