I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

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.

So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.

There's more to life than movies.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.