To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

I was born on the cusp of technology.

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.