Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Pity is akin to love.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

I'm going to try and focus on doing more theater things. I come from that background. I honestly feel so comfortable being on stage, it's really weird. It's one of those things I love to do.