Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

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.

It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.

Adorn your sacred-existence.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.

Nothing is more important than a good education.