. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

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.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

I play better tennis because the court is there.