Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

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.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility

Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Everyone says surgery is the easy way out, but going under the knife is never the easy way out. You don't know if you're going to come back out of it and whether there will be complications.