It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.