So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end

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 only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Home is our greatest place of trials.

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

To excel in life, one must become conscious that the way lived is not the only way of living.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.