There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

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.

As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.

Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

Look at my body. Does it look like I sue steroids?

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I want an identity outside of my work.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.