Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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.

If we reflect, we shall recognize.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

Rise up to wise up.

...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

None of them knew the color of the sky.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.