Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

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.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

I am the trustee for the best bloody fans on the face of the earth.

Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

Lose your smile and lose your customers.