I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

We don't charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.