Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.