So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

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 would rather write 10, 000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Germany must have her place in the sun.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.