There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Sometimes you have to go through some ugly stuff to get to the good stuff.

Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.