What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

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.

Failure is not an option. Keep going!

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.