Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Great actions speak great minds.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

Marriage is a wonderful invention

Funny is always a good way to start when in doubt

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.