Every production must resemble its author.

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.

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.