The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

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.

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

You don't give something away because it's fat. You take it and you look at it.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

I don't care about preaching to the converted.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.