When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

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.

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures.

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

The key to success in life is getting up early.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.