To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

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.

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.