True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

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.

Be very careful of the words that come out of your mouth, if you wish to save yourself from a lifetime of regrets.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.