Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

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.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.