Sweet is pleasure after pain.

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.

Give me agony or give me death, I'll take thy heart as eternal breath

A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.