Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

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.

I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky.

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

When you become very ill - raise your head. You will definitely see the sunlight.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'