Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

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.

Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.