I shall be as secret as the grave.

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.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.