Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

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.

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.

I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.