Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

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.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.