No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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.

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.

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

If you lose interest in the dharma then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then youre completely off the path.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

If you lose direction go to a higher ground.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Many small people in many small places do many small things that can alter the face of the world.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.