Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

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 father of his country.

Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

No-one is ever betrayed by true love.

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.