By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think.

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

"Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts."