Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

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.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

I don't want to be anything other than me.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

I feel strongly about helping fundraise and donating to causes that help children, animals, and the environment. I wish I could do more!

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.