The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

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 psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

I have to be pretty close to what I am.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.