We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

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.

I wasn't used to guys making me blush, and I wasn't sure why he even was making me blush.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.