All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

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.

I have no name, " she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.

Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's

No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise

I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.