Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

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.

Man will never be stronger nor independent ifhe lives under perpetual motivation of others.

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

You have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect...and so are you!