Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

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.

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

He was a match

Choosing life is always messy. But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.

Seek help from God.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.