Take the good the gods provide thee.

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.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It's a completely different style of campaigning that he's allergic to.