Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

Surrender and sacrifice sets you up for success with God.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.