Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

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.

Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom.

In my heart, poetry screams, “I exist!

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.