Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

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.

To make this world joyful, let your heart overflow with joy.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.