Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

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.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

An original is worth more than a copy.

God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

I never think about what people are going think about me.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.