When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

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.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.