It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

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.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.