Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

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.

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.