But love's a malady without a cure.

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.

No infant starts to speak with a stammer

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.