Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

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.

Every day is my best day...I'm not going to have this moment again.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.