Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

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.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.

Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Every man makes a god of his own desire