The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

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.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Put life into living, and do it with enthusiasm!