Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

When all else fails, start running!

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.