We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

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.

A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.