The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

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.

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.