To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

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.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?