In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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.

Do what you can today. And keep working up until you can do everything you want to do in the day, every day.

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

Think your own thoughts.

To choose always the hardest.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.