Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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.

In spite of minor hassles, life was good.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.