An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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.

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.