Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

To be or not to be... I think its a trick question.

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.

Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

A good memory is needed once we have lied.