Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

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.

It doesn’t matter your area of calling, you can invest quality time into it, you will definitely become the best and that will buy you greatness.

Money does not buy you freedom. Time does.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.