All things change nothing is extinguished.

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'm not sure if there's truly a name for this kind of place aside from it being anything but remarkable.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.