I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

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.

Dare not to surrender your faith to your trials and tribulations, they only come to strengthen your mind for your future challenges and obstacles.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

Customer will create most value for you at point he thinks you're creating most value for him.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!