My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

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 have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.