There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

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.

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.

Are you always this honest?""Almost never

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.