Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

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 love my life, I wouldn't give it up for the world.

I come from the very heart of America.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.