"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

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.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

I was different and people made fun of me.

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life.