Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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.

The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

May the next girl you meet have the qualities of a praying mantis.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Be at your best when your best is needed.

I have never actually watched 'Glee.' I have heard it is just fantastic.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.