A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.