At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

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.

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

If you want to get attacked, have an opinion.

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.