There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

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.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

I'm a product of my environment.

I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.

My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.