Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

All the world's a stage.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.