A shy face is better than a forward heart.

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.

The mind can start to work in your favor or against you at any given time. It's a matter of turning your thoughts and beliefs around.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.