William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

He that dies pays all debts.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!