That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

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.

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.