Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

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.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

I need to pay people to make me work out, or I wouldn't do it.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.