But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

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.

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.