Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

I've noticed that if you spend ten years without shooting dope, people consider you an ex-junkie, but one never is considered an 'ex-woman-beater.'

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.