Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

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.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

Today things are better than yesterday.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things.

The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.