Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Let life be short; else shame will be too long.

This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Certain, men should be what they seem.

All that glisters is not gold.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons. I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

Dublin has given me a new definition for home Home is a place you dont want to leave. To be completely honest I think Ill leave a part of my heart here in Ireland.

It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decisionit has become time to follow your heart.

I believe in finding a soulmate.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Our actions and states of mind matter because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

I'm an introspective dude.

I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

On the path to success, you will notice that the successful ones are not whiners, nor do they complain often.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

I've never been ambitious about recording.

Friends were like clothes fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.