Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

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.

That is when you know you have reached the point of no return, when you began to stalk a ghost.

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

Where sanity is there God is.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

There's nothing more fun than entertaining kids.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.