A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

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.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics…and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.