“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.

Until death it is all life.

Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.

Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings – how you feel, what you think, what you do. You are responsible.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

The war between my mind and my heart has been the biggest destruction of my peace.

I mind my business. Thats my peace of mind.

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

I’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.

To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.