Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

All that matters is that I stay healthy.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.