Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.