First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

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.

Enjoy the brush strokes of life and try not to worry about filling the canvas.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.