I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

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.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

Choose your next move, if you don't it will be choosen by somebody else.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress