Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

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

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

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.

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.