Have consideration for wounded feelings.

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.

nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.