Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day.""I know. Fate has annoying timing.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.