Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

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.

You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.