What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

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.

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

True love finds its own waysTo spread goodness, always.

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

I just wanted to let you know that I feel very lucky to have you in my life.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.