"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child."

"Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair."

"One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them"

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

"This isn't the sort of thing you can leave to chance. You never know when you might find yourself in some sort of cake emergency."

"Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance."

"Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man."

"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."