“He [Spike] has already demonstrated a capacity to love, already demonstrated a capacity to be selfless, and, possibly most importantly, has demonstrated that he has a conscience.”

“Redemption becomes possible when we strive to find selflessness, conscience, and a capacity to love within ourselves where before there was none.”

“My question is, how and why would a being who has no soul, and no conscience, and no ability to judge between morality and immorality, suddenly become capable of perceiving it [Spike's attempted rap of Buffy] as a "wrong" which needs to be "righted"?”

“One wonders if Spike would ever have achieved true decency or validity in their [Scooby Gang] eyes, no matter what he did, as long as he was missing the thing which they believed makes a being valid, worthy, moral, and redeemable- a soul.”

“Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.”

“Tiny," Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. "But fierce.”

“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”