All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.