Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man