Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

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.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!