We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.