Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

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.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.