God helps everyone with what is his own.

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.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.