O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

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.

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.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.