Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

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.

There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill.

You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.