Possess your soul with patience.

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.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.