In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

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.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, "Don't feed them this; don't feed them that, if she says this, don't say that," It was crazy!

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

It is our first duty to serve society.