Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

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.

...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

The greatest gift we give each other is the quality of our attention.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.