I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

Stay crunchy, even in milk.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade