William Shakespeare

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

This above all: to thine own self be true.

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

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!

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

He that dies pays all debts.

You have to be odd to be number one.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.