People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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 am still enjoying the success.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.