If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

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.

How long you will live in your dreams? The time is now, it's better to go and follow them..

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, ” she used to warn me.

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.