They who lose today may win tomorrow.

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.

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.