Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

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.

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.