When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

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.

I see it in your eyes as I see it in hers. Remember, there is always light where there is love and if that is what is meant to happen between the two of you, then it was destined.

Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.

To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine's Day echo every day of the year.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.