He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

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.

As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.