Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

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.

You may eventually decide to breakup, and that’s fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

Everything I do is the environment.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.

There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.