We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

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.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

I was a very shy child.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

If we will put our trust in the Lord, he will help us through our difficulties, whatever they my be.