There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase

What's the problem?""You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

I felt the pull toward you the first time we met.

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?