For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

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 aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

Everything is an illusion.

Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.