I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

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.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

You have to be really comfortable in your skin. You have to start with being in love with you are, with who you've become.

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.