A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

Courage provides you with two qualities

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.