The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

Carry the fire.

What you achieve, endures throughout time

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I spread my fingers outward, letting the knife tip of my middle finger rip the sky as it tares a rift in the moon.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.