She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Waste is only waste if we waste it.