To be prepared is half the victory.

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.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

It's us that's really amazing.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.