When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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.

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.