Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.

The northern soldiers are just men, ” Hal told the men in his command. “And women, ” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

You don't have to be strong all the time, Xena. Sometimes it's good for the soul to be soft.

I compete all over the world, so I travel two or three times a month and spend at least six months a year out of the country.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

In this room,in this minite,she was his everything

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.