The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.