Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes 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.

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques.

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

Music is everybody's possession.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me.