Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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.

Writing is prayer.

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

Happy are those who expect nothing

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.