Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

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.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

God cannot force you to accept Jesus Christ because God cannot force you to reject hell. Your choices are very limited

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.