How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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.

Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-consuming beast.

The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely bury it. No matter how obnoxious it was

…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.