The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

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.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.