Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

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.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.