In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

When it comes to love, too many people are out to lunch.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.