For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

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.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.