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.

Never give up searching for the job that youre passionate about. Try to find the job youd have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When youre associating with the people that you love doing what you love it doesnt get any better than that.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I think of myself as an actor.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.