Thou art true and honest as a dog.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.

Deeds are males, words females are.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Sometimes I identify myself as 25 and I dare someone to tell me different!