By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

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.

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

The Lord is our God, our judge, and our king, and He shall reign over us.

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.