To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

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.

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.