I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.