William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.

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

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

He that dies pays all debts.

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!

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

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Die, but do not retreat.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.