The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

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 cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family.

Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

Some touch of Nature's genial glow.