The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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 you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I was born where there were no enclosures.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

"Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood."

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! - C. JoyBell C.