What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

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.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.

You never know what kind of impact you can have on someone by just saying hello.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.