A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

The future hovered in front of her, and she rode Cruise towards it, her hands steady on the reins and her head among the clouds.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

I love change, I need it.