Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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 republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.