As merry as the day is 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.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Love is who we are without our stories.

Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.