Beware of the fury of the patient man.

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 are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.