The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think 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.

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

Show me success without ego!

Cheeseburger in paradise!

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.