His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

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 secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.