When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

A gently touching hand is an expression of trust.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.