Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

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.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.