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

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.

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.

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

We are the other of the other

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."