Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

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.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.