Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

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.

Love isn't suppose to hurt. If it does, then it is absolutely not a true love.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

When we judge others we leave no room to love them.

One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.

The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.