Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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.

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 nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

My production got better, songs, lyrics, everything; the sound, the quality, everything.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.