Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

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 road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?