'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

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.

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light.

Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

I'm not ambitious. Not a bit.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.