A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

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 made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

Wisdom reveals the beauty of the mind.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I believe a person regardless of race should get the job.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.