I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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.

My head’s swimming. Sorry, sis. I’m a useless brother. You’re best off shot of me. - Burt

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy