God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.