The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

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.

Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be

Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.