All empire is no more than power in trust.

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.

We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

Never pursue happiness, just be happy.

Worldly love is limited. Divine love is infinite.

Why should I care about you first kiss, ' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.