Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

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.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

A delightfully droll look at how the other half lives from a pet pooch's point of view.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

In the act of loving someone you arm them against you.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.