Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

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.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.