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

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

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.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

Getting to know experienced people is the best leisure time you can have.

I'm magnificent! I'm 5' 11" and I weigh 135 pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, and I am determined to try and influence the government to really build a national health system for the country.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.

There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

When our economy is truly healthy and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity then issues such as the lack of affordable housing homelessness and hunger are greatly diminished.

If a man look sharply and attentively he shall see Fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Never give up. Believe behave and you will become.

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.