With how much ease believe we what we wish!

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.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living... and only dreams can do that for me.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.