Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

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.

God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.