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.

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.

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.

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house.

The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

The warrior's approach is to say yes to life: yes to it all. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.