I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

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.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.