Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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.

A lot of high-profile companies are recognizing the benefits of power napping. . . . It's like kindergarten all over again.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.