“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Let every man look before he leaps.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven’t seen before.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Have faith to believe for the impossible.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.