A light heart lives long.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

One of my missions was to teach.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.