Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

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.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.

It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.