Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

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.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

Think about it, if we fed our passion the way we fed our fears, we would be achieving our dreams and making the most of our years.

COMPASSION ALERT:As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.