Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

A spell perhaps?” The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

Am I the only one who has wood over that little vixen?

I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.