The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

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.

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.