By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.