He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

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 sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.