A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

If you meet a man who deeply believes he knows it all, then you have succeeded in finding a man who's unwise.

I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.

Damn it, " I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him, " he said.

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.