Men are but children of a larger growth.

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.

Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.