Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.