They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.