How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

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.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.