Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

No act of kindness is wasted.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

The degree of your desire determines your dedication.

Life is easy with a little offer and Competitive with facts.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I see before me the gladiator lie.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.