So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.