You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

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.

Invest your time in producing product or service

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.