What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

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.

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

The tears we shed are sacred prayers.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.