He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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 will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Magic is a naughty beast.

Do as I do, not as I say -- observance often tells me more.

I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.