Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

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.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Everybody whose anybody in hockey has played in Hershey.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.