How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

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.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Loving or hating the life you are living is solely all in your repeated self-talk.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.