Love not what you are but only what you may become.

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.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will.

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

You either expect to win, so when you do win, you're relieved instead of excited and if you lose instead of being motivated, you're embarrassed.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.