Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

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.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.