By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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.

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It's hard to say.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!