Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

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.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.

God’s intention is that everything that has breath would praise him

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Nothing else even comes close.