For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.