Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

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.

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.

Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.