Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

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.

By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom!

Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.