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

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.

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.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I do get around. Geographically, that is.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

Slavery takes hold of few but many take hold of slavery.

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

I can't remember missing a practice because of illness.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.