He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

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.

She has to agree to have me. It could take some time, but I’m confident I can trick her into it.

Pray for the peace of the world.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

She's [Hillary Clinton] been there for 30 years. She's not going to change. Because you look at her donors.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.