The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

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.

Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.

One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

Where there is love, there is God also.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

Love was an agony beyond compare

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.