Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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.

Let us trust the power of love, and fly by spreading the wings of love.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.