Take away the cause and the effect ceases.

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.

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.

No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.