The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

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.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go

I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.