The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

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.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

Diplomacy was a long game.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever.

The exception does not prove the rule.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.