I had as lief have been myself alone.

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 nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.