To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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.

Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

Certainly there will always be stories.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.