Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

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.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

The willing horse is always overworked.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

To travel is to shop.