Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

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.

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle. Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

What does it say, 'I beat Meryl.'

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.