However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

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.

Solitude, a time for memories, a time to dream, a time for passions to simmer quietly in the dark recesses of the mind, eager to fly yet merely reflections in the minds eye...

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope.

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

When someone else accepts you, that's when you begin to see yourself - through THEIR eyes - and you begin to realize that there may actually be many qualities to like about yourself.

Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.