Dead men tell no tales.

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.

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 first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Life is meant for the living but fit for the dead.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Nearly all novels are too long.

Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center.