These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.

I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.