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

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.

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.

Men cannot survive without cheating it is in their nature.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?

As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

Consumerism is our national religion.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Charm in most men and nearly all women is a decoration.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

You know youre getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.