You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

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.

You may be anybody now. One day, you will be just a faded memory.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?

The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.