For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknownEnter within. Stay withoutOn pain of death, we cast you out.

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.