I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?”“Oh no, Ron, ” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

You can never achieve a happy life by interrupting other people's happiness.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.