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

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.

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.

Wit is educated insolence.

Peace comes to those who let others live in peace.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

The only solution is love.

Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.