This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

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.

Words matter, words have import.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.