I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

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.

Wise men speak only of what they know

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.