From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

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.

For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

I wanted to give you everything, to withhold nothing from you, but then one day there was nothing left to give.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Health is very important to me.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.