Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

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.

Vision transforms hope into committed action and passion transforms wants into new realities.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.