I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

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.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well!

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.