It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

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.

Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.