War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

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.

Repent heart rekindles the spirit.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.