Giving calls for genius.

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.

I, myself, love complications and mystery which I didn't notice that I had become one.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.