Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

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.

This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.