We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

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 write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.