Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

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.

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".

Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid, ' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."