Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

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.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us.

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.