When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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.

Never forget that there is a soul within you, which loves you very much, only because it's you.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!

Every page turnedshould be the page read

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.