He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

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.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

If you reach for the stars, but only touch the sky, isn't that better than never knowing the sweet taste of flight?

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.