With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, scene I).

Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace

The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Haphazard actions don’t bring results!

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I cannot stand authority.

Your relationships can only be as healthy as you are.