Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

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.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey, " Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world.

Mystery is not profoundness.

I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.