A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf OF Bard and Chief, Old Erin's native Shamrock.

Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

With power comes great responsibilities.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.".

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.