Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

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.

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him.

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.