Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

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.

Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

The path of love is not for the faint of heart. It is tested and pushed over and over again.