Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

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.

The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.